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Extract from the Sarmizegetusa Travel Guides:
SARMIZEGETUSA
, 15km southwest of Hateg, is the site of one of the key Roman settlements. Having forced the Iron Gate, Trajan's legions marched northeast to subdue the Dacian citadels in the Orastie mountains. Within a few years they had founded towns, most notably Colonia Ulpia Traiana, to which the name of the old Dacian capital, Sarmizegetusa, was later appended. Today, the town's fame still derives from the
Roman ruins
east of the centre, whose excavated portions are only part of the original town, which centred on a citadel measuring some 700m long by 500m wide. You can see the remains of the forum, the palace of the A...
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